GRE Word List
PENDULOUS
poised without visible support
The meaning of the word pendulous is poised without visible support.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| anvil | a heavy usually steel-faced iron block on which metal is shaped (as by hand hammering) |
| indices | signs; indications; Ex. indices of a student's potential; CF. index: something that reveals or indicates; sign; Ex. cost-of-living index |
| industrious | constantly, regularly, or habitually active or occupied : diligent |
| monogram | a sign of identity usually formed of the combined initials of a name |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| pore | to gaze intently |
| crabbed | marked by a forbidding moroseness |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |